Charlene Song

Comparative Education has long been entangled with the study of other countries and societies. Nóvoa and Yariv-Mashal traced the foci of CE from ‘knowing the “other”’, ‘understanding the “other”’ to ‘constructing the “other”’, and ‘measuring the “other”’; Steiner-Khamsi recounted the influence of development and area studies on CE during the Cold War; Takayama described the redefinition of CE in Japan as ‘area studies of education’.